Wisdom of the Sages
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Wisdom of the Sages
Truths about life from the timeless wisdom of the Bhakti-yoga tradition - fun, relevant, and deep. Learn about dharma, yoga, bhakti, and how it relates to all the basic questions of life. This show is about how to live your best life, let go of the external distractions, and uncover the spiritual ha...
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1729: Are We Seeking Transformation, or Just Validation?
The meaning we find in scripture often reveals more about our motive than the text itself. This episode explores the uncomfortable truth: that we don'...
1728: Confront. Process. Transcend. (Real Bhakti Isn't Bypassing)
This episode is a deep dive into death, vulnerability, and the strange grace that appears when we stop running and start facing reality with the holy...
1727: Trusting God Without Knowing the Outcome
A striking model of surrender emerges in this episode: accepting both mercy and correction as meaningful, purposeful, and transformative.
Spoken...
1726: Compassion Is the Measure
A quiet morning of kirtan in Mayapur opens into a deeper reflection on what spiritual maturity actually looks like—not as an idea, but as a lived qual...
1725: Pilgrimage, Mercy & This Fragile Moment in History / Bhakti as a Living, Unfolding Movement
As global uncertainty hums in the background, this moment in history feels both fragile and purposeful.
Moving between history, theology, and li...
1724: Stop Hugging the Cactus: Why the Soul Is Still Hungry
Live from Govardhan Eco-Village in India, this episode unfolds as a grounded, unscripted exploration of why material life grows stale—and why spiritua...
1723: I Love Crying: Finding Faith in Life's Heaviest Moments / Q&A Vol. 293
Some people avoid pain with distractions. In this episode, the Wisdom of the Sages community does something far rarer: they learn how to move through...
1722: Redirected by Grace: Part 2
Krishna's "coincidences" didn't calm down—they escalated. Part Two of Meet the Pilgrims picks up right where the last episode left off: real people, r...
1721: Redirected by Grace: How People Find Their Way to Bhakti
This one is all about spiritual journeys—the stories that bring people onto the Wisdom of the Sages pilgrimage: unlikely beginnings, messy detours, an...
1720: People Over Profits: Inside Radhanath Swami's Bhaktivedanta Hospital
Magic happens in the last place you'd expect it: a Mumbai hospital where patients don't want to be discharged and staff don't want to go home.
R...
1719: A Reflected Rose Has No Aroma — Why the Bhagavad-gītā Calls This World a Reflection
A Bhagavad-gītā-level reality check: the world we experience isn't "illusion" in the lazy, dismissive sense—it's illusion like a reflection. Consisten...
1718: 3 Ferraris, Zero Peace: The Higher Taste Effect (Bhakti & Spiritual Psychology)
A higher spiritual taste doesn't negotiate with desire—it demotes it. From Govardhan Ecovillage in Maharashtra, Raghunath and Kaustubha riff on Willia...
1717: Where Ego Breaks and Bhakti Begins
A modern seeker walks away from a high-pressure career and an ancient Sanskrit text tells a story about giving up one's egoistic false strength. Recor...
1716: Bhakti Changed My Life: The 6-Year Anniversary Show
Six years ago we hit "record" with shaky internet and big dreams—then a lucky break, and a global lockdown helped turn Wisdom of the Sages into a dail...
1715: Is Self-Care Making Us Less Happy?
Self-care culture tells us to treat ourselves, embrace our flaws, and obsess over our inner world—but the research on happiness points in the opposite...
1714: Karma Doesn't Chase You—It Waits
A French poet once observed that we often meet our destiny on the very road we take to avoid it—and history seems to agree. Using Napoleon's failed at...
1713: Can the Angels Lift Raghunath's Spirits on Christmas Eve?
Christmas Eve hits different when life feels fractured: broken family emotions, grief, longing, and that uneasy feeling that the world keeps taking wh...
1712: The Look of Love: Seeing Reality Through Bhakti
Bhakti-yoga doesn't ask us to escape the world—it shows us how to set it right by placing love at the center. This episode begins with a "zoomed-out"...
1711: Why Vrindavan Bhakti Feels So Alive / Discussing Love & Lineage
In this episode, Kaustubha shares deeply moving stories from his recent Vaishnava Scholars' retreat in Vṛndāvana—revealing why Vrindavan bhakti feels...
1710: Amazon Prime Spirituality
When devotion becomes a transaction, spiritual life starts to thin out. In this episode of Wisdom of the Sages, Raghunath and special co-host Pranapri...
1709: Knowing the Price, Missing the Point
Netflix has a price, but what's the cost of what it does to you? Raghunath and Kaustubha riff on Oscar Wilde's brutal truth—people know the price of e...
1708: When Vedānta Becomes Poetry: Kṛṣṇa's Footprints in Vṛndāvana
Bhakti moves like a river between union and separation, carrying the devotee through remembrance, longing, and love. In this episode, Raghunath and Ka...
1707: Is a Monk Really Deeper Than You?
Is a monk living in a temple necessarily deeper than someone living an ordinary life in the world—or could it be the other way around? In this episode...
1706: Einstein, Bhakti-Yoga & the Delusion of Consciousness
Einstein called it an "optical delusion of consciousness." The yogis call it forgetfulness of the Self. In this episode, the illusion of separateness...
1705: Inferiority & the Comparison Trap / Q&A Vol. 292
In this deeply personal Q&A Volume 292, Raghunath and Kaustubha respond to a listener struggling with inferiority, comparison, trauma, and the fear of...
1704: Doing the Inner Work vs Doing Shrooms
Psychedelics can shoot you to the summit, but they can't make you a mountain climber. You may get a glimpse of the view, but the glimpse doesn't chang...
1703: Real Evil Is Boring, Real Good Is Wild | Why Darkness Fails and Bhakti Thrives
Simone Weil's razor-sharp insight cracks open this episode: we glamorize imaginary evil and underestimate how powerful real goodness actually is. Ragh...
1702: Living in a World That's Pulsing With Magic
Wonders flood our lives every moment, yet we sleepwalk past them—missing the hints pointing us toward their Source. In this episode, Raghunath and Kau...
1701: A Cosmic Reality Check: The Truth Behind Our Illusion of Control
Carl Sagan's apple-pie insight becomes a launchpad for a sweeping journey from kitchens to cosmos, as Raghunath and Kaustubha explore why nothing we "...
1700: Measuring the Universe, Missing the Immeasurable
The limits of material analysis end long before the limits of the Absolute. In this landmark episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore Lord Brahma's pr...
1699: Gratitude: A Full-On Rebellion Against Illusion
Gratitude isn't feel-good fluff—it's a full-on rebellion against illusion. In this episode, Raghunath and Mara weave together Charles Dickens, modern...
1698: When the Universe Pops Your Ego Bubble
Life has a way of popping our ego bubble exactly when we need it most. In this episode, Raghunath and Mera explore the mercy hidden inside humiliation...
1697: Love They Can't Pay Back: Bhakti, Service & Real Freedom
Real spirituality begins the moment you do something for someone who can never repay you. In this solo episode, Raghunath and co-host Prana Priya take...
1696: Racism, Rage and a Spiritual Way Forward / Q&A Vol. 291
Rage at a racist, a double middle-finger "protest," and a bhakti yogi wondering, "Did I actually help… or just lose it?" From there, this episode dive...
1695: Grand Theft Butter: Reincarnation, Gillian Anderson & the Gita
Depth and play intertwine as Raghunath and Kaustubha riff on Gillian Anderson's reincarnation quote, Krishna's "Grand Theft Butter" pastims in vrindav...
1694: Stunned by the Infinite: When the Ego Meets Its Match
Nature, humility, and spiritual vision can still the spinning of the mind and burn away the karmic illusion that we're the center of it all. From redw...
1693: Bhakti for Beginners: Doing It Right & Keeping It Real / Q&A Vol. 290
Recorded live in Jaipur, this Q&A episode dives into real beginner questions on the path of bhakti—with Raghunath and Kaustubha responding with both i...
1692: The Next Step in Bhakti: Finding Your Teacher / Q&A Vol. 289
From the sacred city of Jaipur, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore what it means to take the next step in Bhakti—moving from faith to steady practice and...
1691: Soft Heart, Steady Mind: Bhakti Yoga Wisdom / Q&A Vol. 288
From the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh, this pilgrim Q&A with Raghunath and Kaustubha explores how to respond to visible suffering without emotional...
1690: Carrying the Holy Place in Your Heart / Q&A, Vol. 287
Live from Devprayag, Raghunath and Kaustubha explore how to perceive Paramātmā—the Supersoul within—and how Bhakti transforms the mind's shadows of re...